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Laurent Kidinda K.

Technische Universität Dresden · Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Institute Soil Science and Site Ecology

https://researchid.co/laurentkid
@tu-dresden.de
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Research Interests

Soil science, biogeochemistry, tropical systems, soil microbial processes

Biography

Laurent is currently a Ph.D. student at the Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Technische Universität Dresden in Germany. He is from The Democratic Republic of Congo and has experience in working in tropical systems. Laurent is an Agronomist Engineer with an emphasis on soil weathering, carbon, and nutrient cycling. He is a research associate in the framework of TropSOC (DFG funded Emmy Noether group). Laurent's Ph.D. research focuses on understanding if soil erosion in the eastern part of the Congo Basin is fast enough to reach the less weathered regolith, which contains the minerals with more reactive surfaces to stabilize carbon, while still allowing fast soil weathering and nutrient retention at a high level. Along geochemical and geomorphic gradients, he characterizes microbial processes relevant for carbon and nutrients cycling.

Education

2018-2019: Associate researcher in a German Research Foundation (DFG) funded project (TROPSOC, project number 387472333) focusing on carbon and nutrient cycling in tropical systems. Soil sampling and experiment setup in the eastern Congo Basin (Rwanda, Uganda, and DR Congo). 2014-2016: Diploma of Agronomist Engineer, Department of Crop Science, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Lubumbashi, DR Congo. Thesis: Origin, concentration, and spatial distribution of nutrients in termite mounds in Lubumbashi, DR Congo. Distinction (77, 1%). 2011-2014: Undergraduate in Agricultural Sciences...

Recent Google Scholar Publications

  1. Responses of Soybean (Glycine Max (L.) Merrill) to Inoculation with Bradyrhizobium japonicum According to Soil Type in Southeastern DR Congo
    Sch Bull 11 (11), 189-204 , 2025, 2025
  2. Extracellular polymeric substances are closely related to land cover, microbial communities, and enzyme activity in tropical soils
    Soil Biology and Biochemistry 187, 109221 , 2023, 2023 | Citations: 29.0
  3. Links between microbial and geochemical properties in African tropical soils
    2023
  4. Relationships between geochemical properties and microbial nutrient acquisition in tropical forest and cropland soils
    Applied Soil Ecology 181, 104653 , 2023, 2023 | Citations: 24.0
  5. Soil geochemistry–and not topography–as a major driver of carbon allocation, stocks, and dynamics in forests and soils of African tropical montane ecosystems
    New Phytologist 236 (5), 1676-1690 , 2022, 2022 | Citations: 29.0

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